Majority of young women (in the UK) in university

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8596504.stm

"A watershed in university participation has been reached - for the first time a majority of young women in England are going to university.

Provisional figures, showing university entrance for 2008-09, show that 51% of young women entered higher education - up from 49% the previous year.

The overall figures also show an all-time high of 45% going to university, including 40% of young men."

"Showing the scale of the social change - 20 years ago only about one in five young women went into higher education and 30 years ago it was about one in 10. In the early 1960s, only about one in 20 young people were going into higher education."